[ Carbon News ] IPU gathers MPs to discuss the future of sustainable development goals

As the countdown to 2030 approaches, lawmakers gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday at the convening of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to focus on the current state of the Sustainable Development Goals.

However, views among lawmakers are divided on how to respond to a deepening global debt, tax disputes and a widening gulf between ambition and actual action, and debate is heating up about how to save this global development agenda.

The theme of the conference, "Actions to scale up the Sustainable Development Goals: Finance, Institutions and Politics," highlighted the urgency of re-launching the 2030 Agenda.

The President of the General Assembly, Fermon Yang, noted that "we are far behind the standards that should be achieved in almost all of the Sustainable Development Goals."

According to the press, the 17 percent target is now steadily advancing as planned, and this figure reflects the large differences in priorities and future prospects in all areas.

Debt and development The issue of debt has become one of the focuses of discussion.

Members of parliament, such as those in Malta and Morocco, stressed that they face "significant difficulties" in using financial mechanisms to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The representative of Benin further pointed out that the distribution of world wealth was extremely uneven and that debtor countries should bear the responsibility for structural concessions.

However, little agreement has been reached on a solution.

The representative of Cyprus defends a tax system that is specific to the small, mainly service-oriented economic mass, believing that high tax revenues will stifle growth that is important for economic development.

Meanwhile, the representative of Chile warned that tariffs were being used more and more frequently to be economical in global decision-making, and was concerned that the scenario would add to an economic threat within an unequal system.

U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs called for action under the principle of "basic equity," noting that many developing countries are finding it difficult to get financial support to meet their basic needs, even though they have no historical responsibility for climate change.

He said frankly: "I know.

"We have funds.

"Trust me, there is money, but it 's not going to low-income countries or low-middle - income countries right now. "

Political aspirations: commitment or burnout?

Lack of funding is a pronounced obstacle, but UN officials argue that a lack of political will is the fundamental resistance to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Guy Ryder, Under-Secretary - General for Policy Affairs, pointed out that although countries had made verbal commitments, actual results had not yet been achieved.

He asked, "While the 17% target achievement rate is clearly not enough, what would the world be like without the Sustainable Development Goals?"

At the same time, some delegations expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the existing framework.

The representative from Sweden considered that those goals, established in 2015, were already deadlocked, and called for the replacement of the existing 17 Sustainable Development Goals with new ones that were more realistic.

In response, the representative of Morocco countered that it would be counterproductive to abandon existing commitments before they had been achieved, and stressed that "we must realize the goals adopted in 2015."

The representative of Nigeria presented a compromise proposal, suggesting that the methodology should be redesigned to better link national interests with global multilateralism.

At the same time, a member of parliament from Qatar reviewed the experience of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the precursor to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and pointed out that although many of the goals have not yet been realized, they have laid a valuable foundation for future progress.

At the end of the conference, the next steps in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed that the SDGs still represent the most ambitious global development framework, but the way ahead is still fraught with challenges.

The contradictions between national domestic priorities and multilateral development ambitions remain sharp, and fiscal regulations could further undermine the process.

However, the representatives of the participants believe that doing nothing is never an option.

The President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Tulia Axon, said: "We must learn to jump out of narrow political interests.

We have to start a lot from the point of view of common interests, "she noted.

She added, quoting Nelson Mandela, that "until it is really realized, everything seems impossible."

The heated debate among parliamentarians will reveal the fate of the future Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depending on whether countries can overcome their internal differences and achieve financial, political and institutional breakthroughs so that the global development agenda does not deviate from the established trajectory.